The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-08-26
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Dolngs Of the United Labor convection Of ssr
York,

D0lBgs OF the URited Labor Convention OF View
York.
The New York United Labor Convention,
held ut Syracuse Oi which Henry George
was president, nominated a full ticket as
follows; Secretary OF state, Henry George,
New York; controller, Victor A. Wilde,
| Kings; state treasurer. B.. u. Cummings,
Montgomery; attorney general, Dennis c..
Feely Monroe; state engineer and surYay-
or, Sylyanus A. Sweet.
Resolutions were adopted for the organ
ization OF a great national party. Reso-
lutions were also passed fayOring eight
hours work for letter carriers; women
equality; extending theschool age in chill
dren from fourteen to sixteen years; in fav-
or OF free public libraries; a state printing
department; the Australian system OF u
secret ballot; the prohibition OF the en-
ployment Of armed detectives; denouncing
class legislation and the misrepresentation
OF public funds.
The platform says among other things:
We aim at the abolition OF the system
which compels men to pay their fellow
creatures for the use of Gods gifts to all
and permits mOnOpoliZers to deprive labor
OF natural opportunities for employment,
thus filling the land with tramps and pau
pers and bringing about an unnatural
competition which tends to reduce wages
to starvation rates and to make the wealth
producer the Industrial slave OF those
who grow rich by his toll. We aim at the
abolition Of the system which makes such
benefiCent Inventions as the railroad and
telegraph a means for the oppression Of
the people and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of an
aristOCraCy OF wealth and power. We aim
at the abolition Of all laws which give to
any class OF citizens advantages either jn-
dicial, financial, industrial or political
that ara Dpf pTuaIlv sin ppJ bU all We
call upon all who would effect tho enamel
patton OF labor and who would make the
American Union and its ON.
ponent states democratic common
wealths OF really Tree and independent
citizens, to ignore the monopolists and
join with us in organizing IL great national
party on this broad platform OF natural
rights and equal justice. We do not aim
at securing any forced equality in the dis
tributiOn Of wealth. What We propose is
not the disturbing OF any man in his hold
ing or title, but by aboliShing all taxes IN
industry and it's products leave to the pro
ducer the free fruits of his eXertion and by
the taxation OF and value exclusive OF
improvements to devote to common use
those values which, arising not from the
eXertion Of the individual, but from the
growth OF society belonging Justly to the
community as Il whole. This increased tax
alton OF land not according to it's area but
according to its value must, while relieving
the working farmer and small homestead
owner OF the undue burden now imposed
upon them, make it Improbable to hold
for speculation. and thus throw open
abundant opportunities for the employ,
ment OF labor and the building up OF
homes. We would further promote the
commonwealth and further secure the
equal rights OF all by placing under public
control such agencies as are in their ma
ture ~monopolies. Wefavor such as may
tend to reduce the hours OF labor, to pre-
vent the employment OF children OF tender
years, to avoid the competition of convict
labor with honest industry, to secure the
sanitary inspection OF tenements, factories
and mines, and put an end to the abuse Of
conspiracy lays.